Benjamin Church

Historical marker location:

Holland, Massachusetts

( Memorial is at the intersection of Sturbridge Road and E Brimfield Road, on the right when traveling east on Sturbridge Road.)

The Boston Tea Party wasn't the first act of rebellion against British taxation in America. In 1765, colonists in Massachusetts burned effigies of British tax collectors and destroyed their homes and property in what came to be known as the "Stamp Act Riots."